Executive Master in Smart Mobility
Background
Anticipating and managing the impact of digital technology on transportation A new high-quality program, unique in France, run by two engineering schools specializing in transportation and digital technology: Télécom Paris and École nationale des ponts et chaussées.
Digital technologies are to be found everywhere in all forms of mobility. Travelers have access to solutions that are both simple and powerful, and more and more innovative services, to organize their journeys. On the supply side, customer relations, operations, maintenance, and investment planning have been profoundly transformed. New practices made possible by autonomous vehicles, car sharing, and ridesharing, now pose big challenges to mobility patterns and are transforming value chains and business models in the sector.
Success rate: 100% - Global professional insertion rate: 93% - Insertion rate for the targeted appointment: 92%
The Advanced Master is accredited by French Conférence des Grandes Écoles and is a member from the France Mobilités French Mobiity Community.
Patrice Aknin is the new Director of the Advanced Master
Patrice Aknin is a Scientific Director at IRT SystemX. Aknin graduated from ENS (École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay) and holds his agrégation in applied physics, he is an expert in tools for diagnosis of industrial systems and their maintenance policies.
The Executive Master - Mastère Spécialisé® in Smart Mobility offers a high-level technical and managerial program, which notably tackles:
- The organization of mobility systems,
- Transportation systems,
- The possibilities opened up by information processing,
- The design and management of mobility services.
Aims
The Smart Mobility Mastère Spécialisé® is a high-level technical and managerial program which specifically covers mobility systems organization, transportation systems, opportunities created by digital technology and the design and management of mobility services.
Two complementary schools of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris combined to cover two areas of expertise
Télécom Paris provides the IT and telecommunications parts of the courses in Information Technology, Data Science, CRM and Cyber Security, among others. A leading graduate school in digital technology, its teaching and research cover all disciplines of information and communication science and technology.
L’École nationale des ponts et chaussées provides the teaching for mobility, particularly with regard to transport system organization, infrastructure and transportation system engineering and territorial management, the economics and services of mobility, traffic management, and logistics management.
Each course will involve researchers from both graduate schools and expert professionals.
Benefits
- Teaching based on numerous case studies and extensive input from specialists.
- A teaching team combining teachers and researchers from both schools – to teach the most advanced theories and practices – and working professionals – to stay in contact with the needs and applications of companies.
- Numerous contacts with companies, through projects on real-world data, tradeshows…
- Group-based discussion and analysis.
The support of a club of founding partners: including RENAULT, the Île-de-France Region, Setec, and SNCF.
Careers
Wide-ranging career opportunities at the heart of the digital transformation occurring in transportation
The program is at the meeting-point of two professional worlds: on the one hand the mobility professions, with a view to engaging in the great digital transformation that is currently under way; on the other hand the digital technology sector, with a view to gaining a broad overview of transportation systems, and the related processes and professions.
Prospective careers
- Project Manager for new mobility services
- “Digital Transition” Project Manager in the transportation sector
- Technical Services Manager
- “Transportation Services” Designer and Developer, Solutions Architect
- Transportation System Designer or Planner
- Mobility Information Systems Manager
Who are the potential employers?
- Local authorities and transportation authorities
- Mobility services providers
- Operators of passenger and freight services and infrastructure
- Engineering and consulting firms
- Digital industry: IT service companies, software publishers, computer manufacturers, telecoms operators and parts manufacturers ...
- Innovative digital start-ups involved in modernizing transportation
Applications for 2026/2027 will open in November, please visit our website to apply online.
Who is the program for?
The Executive Master - Mastère Spécialisé® in Smart Mobility is an Executive, post-Masters, or post-engineering degree program, intended to build upon and specialize an initial degree in engineering (Masters level).
Applicants must have a two-year Masters level degree in transportation systems engineering, in industrial or mechanical engineering, in systems architecture, or in computer science. A one-year Masters degree, plus at least three years of professional experience in the field concerned, is also sufficient.
The program is also open to candidates without a Masters degree, but who can demonstrate several years’ experience at Engineer or Manager level in the transportation or engineering sectors. Extensive career opportunities opened up by the impact of digital technologies on transportation.
The Executive Master - Mastère Spécialisé® program stands at the intersection of two professional worlds: on the one hand the mobility professions, with the chance to play a role in the great digital transformation currently underway; on the other hand the digital technologies sector, with big possibilities in transportation-related processes and activities
Entry Requirements
Have graduated or will soon graduate with a postgraduate degree (Master’s level) or in exceptional cases a strong undergraduate degree:
- Minimum 4-year Bachelor or equivalent
- Minimum 3-year Bachelor with 3 years of professional work experience
Admissions
Please visit our French website for more information or click here to access the online application form on our Partner school Telecom Paris
Tuition fees
€14,700 for students who pay for the course themselves.
€17,900 for students for whom the course is financed by a company or organisation.
These prices are subject to change and exempt from VAT
€90 fees
| Block A : Mobility ecosystem : governance, players, ethics, socio-economics and regulatory |
| Smart Mobility : mobility of people and goods |
| Smart Mobility, Smart City |
| Actors and challenges of mobility in transition |
| Contractual, legal and ethics challenges |
| Travelers transportation : network and road and railroad offers (urban and international) |
| Freight: multimodal challenges & supply chain between railroad, fluvial and road |
| Block B : Transport system and data processing (infrastructures , platforms, big data/AI |
| Security, safety et cybersecurity of Systems and Networks |
| Systemic approach of infrastructure and innovation |
| Self-driving and connected vehicles |
| Smart Public Transport |
| Communications and localisation sor smart mobility, cybersecurity of Systems and Networks |
| Introduction to Big Data and data mining algorithms applied to mobility |
| Introduction to Machine Learning and applications to mobility |
| Block C : Mobility as a service |
| Engineering of information systems for mobility : system architecture |
| Services and economy of mobility |
| From spaces to services: learn to read space and dynamic management of public spaces |
| Ticketing and systems of shared mobility |
| Modeling of transports and traffic (pedestrians, bikes, individual vehicles…) |
| Interdisciplinary studies |
| Start up Day (Presentation of Telecom Paris start-up incubator, Focus on CES Las Vegas, Presentation of SAAT Paris Saclay) |
| FORMATION ACTION - dynamic simulation in Urban Mobility |
| Professional Thesis |
11 months of part-time courses compatible with employment
Two semesters of classes will total approximately 400 teaching hours (45 European Credit Transfer System [ECTS]), followed by a semester dedicated to a work-based thesis (30 ECTS).
The classes, alternating one week per month, are being held in both graduate schools: École nationale des ponts et chaussées and Télécom Paris, depending on the premises on the day.
Direction
Patrice AKNIN
Executive Master's Director Smart Mobility
Équipes administratives
Nivalath NEARITH
Inspector of Studies® Smart Mobility at the School
Tel.: 01 64 15 39 12
Laurent HASQUENOPH
Inspecteur des études du Mastère Spécialisé® Smart Mobility at Télécom Paris
Tel.: 01 75 31 41 08
Ambassadors
Diana Catalina MARQUEZ
Ambassadrice du Mastère Spécialisé® SMOB
Contact ou Linkedin
Louise LOPES SOARES
Ambassadrice du Mastère Spécialisé® SMOB
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Contact the Master's team by using this form
2025
Field trip in Germany
2024 and previous years
- Visit in April 2023 to Telecom Paris' start-ups incubator and of SATT Paris Saclay for a day dedicated to innovation in transportation and presentation of starts ups' support programs. Thanks to Yann April Bouché (Telecom Paris' Incubator) and Xavier Apolinarski, Marion Ripert, Natalia Buryka (SATT Paris Saclay) for welcoming the cohort.
- Cohort 2020-2021 field trip to Monaco. We thank Monaco's government, Compagnie Autobus of Monaco as well as the Evzen company for their warm welcome
- Students went to Vienna for a field trip and joined the conference « Transport Research Arena 2018 - a digital era for transportation ». During this trip a visit of the Center for Smart Transport of Vienna (ITS Vienna) wars organized, an opportunity to meet researchers at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT).
2025 Smart Mobility Module Leaders and Alumni Testimonials during webinars (in French)
Cohort 2019-2020 Naman Negi, CTO & Founder at Lomads
